Anonymous Threatens Internet With "Operation Blackout"

[Roserari]

In protest of the continuing deforestation, we are going to cut people off from breathing air.

... Morons.

 

[DragonsAteMyMarbles]

Protest a proposed bill to restrict the internet by "breaking" the internet. Reminds me of a child smashing a favourite toy because they got in trouble for hitting another kid with it.
Bless.

 

[GobbieMarauder]

What gets me about this which I find just hillarious is, ok if they pull it off and say it only lasts a few hours. Theres tons of people out there with very little to no knowledge of the wider internet and this particular group, what they "stand for" if you can even call it that, or people who just have crappy internet connections anyway

For them it just might be a "huh cant connect to the internet, guess I'll go do something else and come back later"

Take my sister for example, only uses the net for social networking, facebook etc. and knows nothing of how technology works really. So to her, she'll just think its her laptop or router or something, shrug, go do something else for a few hours and come back non the wiser.

A lot of people thought Wikipedia going black to protest SOPA was literally that the government had shut down Wikipedia, despite the fact that Wikipedia provided a page explaining everything when you tried to visit. The people who want to understand will read the news and find out, and the people who don't will never ever understand or care, no matter what you do.

 

[kayisking]

What is this I don't even...

They are going to shut down the entire internet? Is that even possible?

Well... Not really. It's just that you will have to know the ip of the site you want to access. Same way they wanted to block sites with SOPA (and why it would not work). I can confirm that what they are saying is technically possible, but I doubt they really have the resources to do it. They would have to shut off all 13 servers simultaniously, which would be quite impressive.

 

[Lancer873]

I remember when the DNS server in my local area was shut down. There's actually a fair amount of things you can still do. Anything that connects directly via IP address (Skype and most games) will still be available, and if you look up the IP address of the sites you need to go to you can still visit them. Either way, I'll be gone that day so oh well.

 

[Flames66]

And the people of Anonymous shoot themselves in the foot AGAIN, because quite frankly this doesn't spread a message; quite the opposite - it stems the flow of information, and people will not know what the fuss is about unless the news tells them.

EVERYTHING WE DO MAKES OUR POTENTIAL SUPPORTERS HATE US!

WHAT DO WE DO?

DO IT SOME MORE! MAYBE THEY'LL CHANGE THEIR MINDS!!!

dumbasses.

They have my support. People don't pay attention unless the issue directly effects them in a way they can understand.

If you say to the average person that we live in an invisible prison where large corporations control governments and everything you do is watched, they would either respond with "that's a load of bullshit" or "I don't care, I can live comfortably".

If the everyone tries to go on the internet and finds it isn't there, calls their ISP or turns on the news to see what is going on, at least some of them will look into the issues more closely.

 

[Cyfu]

Can anyone explain to me what anonymous will gain from this?

EDIT: just realized that i will be at my cabin anyways so... at least I wont notice this. I will be without internet for a week

 

[SenseOfTumour]

It's fairly simple, they're not protesting by breaking the internet, they're putting a temporary block in place for most people, so that people know that it can be taken away at any time.

I'm just looking forward to Santorum's campaign site being redirected to a massive gay porn site, personally. They've not stated any urge to do it, but I think they should.

 

[TheAmazingHobo]

I guess it would be impressive.
In a "blowing up the moon"-kind of way
Problem is, due to caching and isp-side redundancies, it wouldn´t do much (so the greatest feat in black-hatting ever would thus amount to "mild inconvenience for some people for a short duration").

Unless by "cutting it off" they mean "breacking into all the hundreds and hundreds of distributed clusters and smashing the shit out of them with a crowbar."

 

[Jiffex]

Lol, in other news, space octopi are threatening to conquer Earth on the same day. This isn't going to happen.

I think you need to read this.

http://cdn.themis-media.com/media/global/images/library/deriv/72/72749.jpg

 

[newdarkcloud]

But the internet is just a series of tubes according to my politicians. How could you possibly shut all of those down?

Seriously: I really think that's a bad idea. You're hearts in the right place, but this could backfire in a huge way.

 

[BaronIveagh]

According to Anonymous' twitter, as has been posted before, this is a hoax.

 

[lolmynamewastaken]

so are anonymous now the mysterons or something?

 

[barbzilla]

Well lets say they do manage to kill the DNS servers. Don't worry, all of your online games will still function perfectly as they do not utilize the DNS servers, they route via IP addresses to the servers in question (with a few exceptions). As for shutting down the entire internet, they already said they will be killing the primary DNS servers, so switch out to OpenDNS for a while (or just keep it, I did and I love it. No more MSFT DNS server errors).

 

[EHKOS]

my god, we'll have to resort to ip addresses

actually i don't really know how this thing works anyway

Actually that won't work either, at least, it doesn't for me. Comcast has a bad habit of letting their DNS server go down sometimes and even I.P. addresses don't work.

OT: I doubt this will happen. Anon doesn't have enough firepower to take down all thirteen anyway.

 

[wooty]

Doing this on Saturday? I'll be out anyway.

Go for it, itll be fun to see the fallout afterwards. If the threats legitimate in the first place.

 

[legendp]

Come on now, Anonymous, that's just silly. Everyone knows that if you want to shut down the internet you'd have to fetch it down from Big Ben first. They're either going to need security clearance or a few dozen ladders.

are you quoting the IT Crownd or is it just coincidence. As for anonymus shutting down the internet, I highly doubt it. And from my understanding of it things like Xbox live, PSN, any online game, probaly WOW, would all remian operational becuase (as far as I know) they don't use HTTP, and those are large communities that would quickly fix or find a work around (like IP adresse) to these problems, but I am probably wrong considering my understanding on how the internet works is pretty poor. Not that it matters because the chance of this happening is slim to none, sorta of like the chance of any of you reading this.